Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2009
Life Cycle Assessment is a powerful method to compare thefull environmental burden assignable to products, services orprocesses. In the framework of ULCOS project, this methodwas chosen to assess the environmental burden of futureiron and steel making processes. We propose here a novelmethodology which consists in replacing the traditional datacollection by a rigorous physico-chemical calculation. Suchan approach allows precise environmental assessment ofexisting or future processes.